POV-Ray

It hasn't been updated for over a year and the Mac version has to be run in Classic since the Jaguar version won't render or let you open files from the Open menu. Does anyone else suspect that it's dead?

The Mac page also has many ooooooooold links and counts Meshwork as "new."

I need help rotating a sphere. I want to rotate it around its center, but when I rotate it (rotate around the x axis), it rotates around the bottom of the sphere. what translations do I need to do to the sphere to make it stay in the same location yet rotate like I want it to?

Make sure the center of your sphere is located at 0,0,0 (in relation to itself), otherwise it will orbit. That might not fix the problem though, because its been a little while since I've messed with it.

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Quote:Originally posted by Dr. Light Make sure the center of your sphere is located at 0,0,0 (in relation to itself), otherwise it will orbit. That might not fix the problem though, because its been a little while since I've messed with it.

I know it is orbiting, I was wondering what I could do to translate it so it wouldn't orbit.... or how I would translate whatever to the center of the sphere... help me out here. code be nice to

Hmm. Your right, it hasn't been updated for quite some time now that I think about it. Don't know what I was thinking...

Quote:AoI is pretty good, but it lacks features of many 3D apps.

If only it were a tad more simple then it would be great for beginners. The texture setup is awful, cause you either got to import from another file or whip it up from scratch every time you make a new file. Unfortunately, it requires some sit-down time and a little bit of know-how to get something done. As for professional work, goodness no; however, it does manage to get this cowboy's work done with room to spare, and at a price I can afford. In short: not perfect, but I love it.

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>abandonware" applications like Infini-D and RayDream Studio
Technically, both are NOT abandonware. Eovia owns the rights to both, and markets their line to the customers of those apps.

>now out of those, I believe pov ray has the best rendering quality
PR can make some nice images, although I hear that the Mac version is SLOWER than the PC/Linux versions. I don't know the status on this issue to comment though.